The Mammoth Book of Historical Crime Fiction

From a new generation of writers, inspired by C.J. Sansom, Boris Akunin and others: darker, more realistic historical crime fiction. No longer stuck in medieval Wales, these stories are set in 3BC Syracuse, fourteenth-century Venice, 1930s' New York and other more vibrant times and places. These 12 new, pieces of short historical crime fiction are sufficiently long to place a stronger emphasis on realism of character and on the psychology of crime.